Policy Options

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Manley, thanks for doing this. JOHN MANLEY: My pleasure. PO: In the decade since you left public office, smart phones, social networks, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and...

Welcome to our special issue, “Canada in the Pacific Century,” aligned with a national conference organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and held in Ottawa on September...

Everyone’s heard the story. A lucky couple wins the lottery! Their meagre, low-income lives are over and they promptly quit their jobs. Champagne-fuelled vacations follow, and suddenly they have...

For centuries, traders and travelers from around the world have marvelled at China’s complexity. Grappling with that complexity now is crucial for Canada’s future, given China’s return to its...

Discussions about the Canada-Asia energy relationship are often divisive and polarized. We lack a strategic framework for Canada’s energy relationship with Asia, one that attempts to bring together often...

For Canada, the heart of the initial Canada-US free trade negotiations was a binding, binational system of dispute settlement. The greatest risk to our trade with the United States,...

For 250 years, Canada’s strong economic links with its neighbour to the south have been a cornerstone of its growth and prosperity. While the United States will continue to...

The Harper government has adopted an “ambitious, pro-trade plan in large, dynamic, and fast-growing priority markets.” It purports to complete what the government claims has been since 2006 “the most...

Over the past decade, China has demonstrated that it has emerged from its long sleep. Modernization, urbanization and marketization are occurring at a dizzying pace.With a population of more...

Over the past year, the fanfare of the “Asian Century” mind frame that essentially takes Asian growth dynamics has finally hit Canadian shores, and large swaths of the policy...

As Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI) becomes a major force in the international economy, two questions are of central interest to policy-makers in Canada and elsewhere. First, what...

Chinese companies, in particular state-owned enterprises (SOEs), are a major new source of global foreign direct investment (FDI). The depth of such capital available for overseas investment, China’s obvious...

Today, the world faces two truly momentous trends. The first is primarily political and has major economic ramifications. The second is primarily economic, but has huge political ramifications. First,...

Rapid economic growth in emerging economies, especially Asia, combined with recent higher but more volatile international food prices, have prompted some Canadians to wonder whether we are at the...

A university education is a transformative experience. Universities help us navigate in a profoundly changing and challenging world. They create, connect and integrate knowledge. They link us across cultures...

Over several decades, Canada has witnessed the decline of many of its traditional manufacturing industries in the face of competition from low-wage, low-skilled Asian economies. Much of our clothing...

Canadian diplomacy has traditionally been carried out by diplomats and governments. Engaging, particularly in Asia, is about building strong and secure friendships. Business is secondary to ensuring that you...

In a socially and economically integrated world in which so many problems transcend borders, the need for international cooperation has never been greater. But cooperation requires leadership, particularly when interests diverge or free-rider...

Over the past two decades, China’s rise in power and influence has reshaped global economics and politics. There are now, as Paul Evans of the University of British Columbia...

More than one in three Canadians think the Asia-Pacific region “holds the most opportunity for Canada,” as opposed to just under one Canadian in four who believe the best...

Canadians are once again in disbelief over their treatment at the hands of Uncle Sam. They shouldn’t be. In fact, Canadians should be embarrassed at their disbelief. For generations,...

Collectivement, nous savons beaucoup de choses sur la pauvreté. Nous convenons de seuils de faible revenu — la moitié du revenu médian par exemple —, et ceux-ci nous permettent...